at Duluth, Minn., and will enable the board to establish it for a cost not exceeding $14,000. The Department concurs with the board as to the need for the estab lishment of this light-house depot at Minnesota Point, and recommends that an appropriation of $14,000 be made therefor. A COPY OF A COMMUNICATION FROM THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL SUBMITTING AN ESTIMATE OF APPROPRIATION FOR SALARIES, POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. FEBRUARY 8, 1902.-Referred to the Committee on the Post-Office and Post-Roads and ordered to be printed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, copy of a communication from the Postmaster-General of the 5th instant, submitting a supplemental estimate of appropriation for salaries, Post-Office Department, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, for clerks and other employees in the rural free-delivery service at Washington, D. C., amounting to $274,440. Respectfully, L. M. SHAW, Secretary. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL, SIR: I have the honor to submit herein a supplemental estimate showing the amount that will be needed for pay of clerks and other employees in the rural free-delivery service at Washington, D. C., in order that this branch of the postal service may be properly maintained during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, as follows: Estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, by the Post-Office Department. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Salaries, Post-Office Department Rural free-delivery service Superintendent of rural-delivery (submitted). Supervisor (submitted)...... Chairman of board of examiners of rural carriers (submitted).. Three clerks of class 4 (submitted). Six clerks of class 3 (submitted). Twenty-five clerks of class 2 (submitted) Forty clerks of class 1 (submitted) Fifty clerks, at $1,000 each (submitted) One hundred and fifteen clerks, at $900 each (submitted). Three messengers, at $840 each (submitted). Ten assistant messengers, at $720 each (submitted) Five laborers, at $660 each (submitted). Four charwomen, at $480 each (submitted).. Total 57TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. J DOCUMENT 1st Session. No. 376. EDWARD J. TAYLOR, ADMINISTRATOR. LETTER FROM THE ASSISTANT CLERK OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS, TRANSMITTING A COPY OF THE FINDINGS OF FACT IN THE CASE OF EDWARD J. TAYLOR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. FEBRUARY 8, 1902.-Referred to the Committee on War Claims and ordered to be printed. COURT OF CLAIMS, CLERK'S OFFICE, Washington, February 7, 1902. SIR: Pursuant to the order of the court, I transmit herewith a certified copy of the findings filed by the court in the aforesaid cause, which case was referred to this court by the Committee on War Claims, House of Representatives, under the act of March 3, 1883. I am, very respectfully, yours, etc., Hon. DAVID B. HENDERSON, JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. Speaker of the House of Representatives. [Court of Claims. Congressional, No. 10171. Edward J. Taylor, administrator of Henry Clevenger, deceased, v. The United States.] This case, being a claim for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, the court, on a preliminary inquiry, finds that Henry Clevenger (deceased), the person alleged to have furnished such supplies or stores, or from whom the same are alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. Filed May 20, 1901. BY THE COURT. [Court of Claims. Congressional case No. 10171. Edward J. Taylor, administrator Henry Clevenger, deceased, v. The United States.] STATEMENT OF CASE. The claim in the above-entitled case for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war for the suppression of the rebellion was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives on the 24th day of April, 1900. On a preliminary inquiry the court, on the 20th day of May, 1901, found that the person alleged to have furnished the supplies or stores, or from whom they were alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States throughout said war. The case was brought to a hearing on its merits on the 4th day of December, 1901. G. W. Z. Black, esq., appeared for claimant, and the Attorney-General, by George H. Walker, esq., his assistant, and under his direction, appeared for the defense and protection of the interests of the United States. The claimant in his petition makes the following allegations: That he is a citizen of the United States, residing in Washington, District of Columbia, and that his decedent resided during the war of the rebellion in Fairfax County, Va.; that at different times during said period the United States forces, by proper authority, took from his decedent quartermaster stores and commissary supplies of the value of $2,432.50, and appropriated the same to the use of the United States Army, as follows: Taken September, 1861, by Colonel Howard: 12 acres of corn.. Taken September, 1862, by Fifty-third New York Regiment, and others: $375.00 200.00 50.00 200.00 187.00 150.00 100.00 50.00 80.00 50.00 300.00 50.00 300.00 340.00 2, 432.50 The court, upon the evidence, and after considering the briefs and arguments of counsel on both sides, makes the following FINDINGS OF FACT. There were taken from the claimant's decedent in Fairfax County, State of Virginia, during the war for the suppression of the rebellion, by the military forces of the United States, for the use of the Army, stores and supplies of those above described, which were then and there reasonably worth the sum of five hundred and sixty-five | dollars ($565) for which no payment appears to have been made. The claims for lumber, green corn, and vegetables are excluded, as being due to the depredation of soldiers. BY THE COURT. [SEAL.] O JOHN RANDOLPH, Assistant Clerk Court of Claims. |